The Bournemouth and District Water Company (Amendment of Local Enactments) Order 1988

Made: 13th July 1988

Coming into force: 14th July 1988

The Secretary of State, on the application of the Bournemouth and District Water Company, being statutory water undertakers[^f00001], and in exercise of powers conferred on him by sections 33 and 59(1)[^f00002] of the Water Act 1945[^f00003] and now vested in him[^f00004], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Bournemouth and District Water Company (Amendment of Local Enactments) Order 1988 and shall come into force on the 14th July 1988.

• (2) The Bournemouth and District Water Acts and Orders 1873 to 1985 and this Order may be cited together as the Bournemouth and District Water Acts and Orders 1873 to 1988.

• (3) In this Order—

• “the Company” means the Bournemouth and District Water Company;

• “the Third Schedule” means the Third Schedule to the Water Act 1945; and

• “the undertaking” means the undertaking of the Company as for the time being authorised under any enactment.

Repeal and amendment of local enactments

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• (1) Section 35 of the Bournemouth Gas and Water Act 1896[^f00005] (which empowers the Bournemouth Borough Council (as successor to the Bournemouth Corporation[^f00006]) to require water from the Company’s Wimborne pumping station to be softened) and subsections (4) and (5) of section 20 of the Bournemouth Gas and Water Act 1913[^f00007] (which contain further provisions relating to the softening of water within the limits of supply of the former Wimborne Minster Waterworks Company Limited) are hereby repealed.

• (2) In section 64 of the Bournemouth Gas and Water Act 1896 (which prescribes the number of directors of the Company), for the word “five” substitute “seven”.

Application of section 94 of the Third Schedule

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For the purposes of this Order, section 94[^f00008] of the Third Schedule (which requires undertakers to keep a copy of the special Act at their principal office and to deposit copies with certain officers) shall apply to the undertaking and is hereby incorporated with this Order.

Costs of Order

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The costs, charges and expenses of and incidental to the application for and the preparation and making of this Order may in whole or in part be defrayed out of revenue.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State.

Dinah Nichols — An Under Secretary in the — Department of the Environment — 13th July 1988

Footnotes

[^f00001]: See the Water Act 1973 (c. 37), section 11(6).

[^f00002]: See the definition of “Minister”.

[^f00003]: 1945 c. 42. Section 33(3) was repealed by the Water Act 1973, Schedule 9.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1951/142, 1900, 1970/1681.

[^f00005]: 1896 c.cxcvi.

[^f00006]: See the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), section 179(3).

[^f00007]: 1913 c.lxv.

[^f00008]: Section 94(1) was amended by S.I. 1986/1.